The Way You Hold Your Phone Could Be Changing The Shape Of Your Hands

Ileana is the Editor of Original Content at LittleThings. She grew up in upstate New York and Oregon and now lives in Queens, NY. Ileana graduated from Skidmore College with a degree in sociology. After graduating, she attended the Columbia Publishing Course in New York City, then worked as in marketing at Oxford University Press. Since transitioning to editorial, she has written for sites like BuzzFeed, HuffPost, and Unwritten. She has also worked for local newspapers and magazines in upstate New York. In her free time, you can find Ileana watching Law and Order: SVU, eating ice cream, and spending time with her dog.

In today’s day and age, it seems like everyone has a smartphone. From 8-year-olds to 80-year-olds, everyone is constantly connected via their phones.

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People use their phones for work, fun, communication, games, television, etc. It seems like there’s nothing these devices can’t do.

Everyone is keen on getting their hands on the latest and greatest phone, but there’s actually a strange reason we shouldn’t be using our phones as much as we do: it’s messing up people’s hands.

If you think I’m going to talk about carpal tunnel syndrome, you’re wrong.

Actually, the issue I’m going to tell you about is called “smartphone pinky.”

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“Smartphone pinky” occurs when your little finger gets a dent on it near the first knuckle from the way you hold your phone.

Take a look at your hands right now — notice any differences between the shapes of your pinkies?